The latest "true crime" craze didn’t start with Making A Murderer
or Serial — no, it goes way further
back than that, to the O.J. Simpson trial. Judge Lance Ito was among the first
judges to allow television cameras into his courtroom, which is one reason why the public became so fascinated with the trial, it's still being talked about over 20 years later. Since viewers could see all the happenings at Simpson’s trial, in which he was found not guilty of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman, they could
see all the witnesses too. Some witnesses in the Simpson trial even became minor celebrities. He was at the center of a media storm in 1994, but where is Kato Kaelin today? Bustle has reached out to Kaelin for comment and has not yet received a response.

“It was my first time ever
in a courtroom. Never even a traffic ticket — nothing. Suddenly I was thrust
into the limelight in a double-murder trial that involved a national hero. I’ll
say it again: I was one of the few people who DIDN'T want to be there.”

Of course, Kaelin couldn’t
keep mum on all of the Simpson projects that have recently popped up. In
reference to his portrayal on The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story, Kaelin said to Oprah, “As far as the acting goes,
I think it’s terrific. Billy Magnussen, the actor, is [a] terrific actor. His
choice of how he plays me is incorrect. I really wish I had a chance to meet
him beforehand, but it was his choice not to meet."

Kaelin has also commented on the real case. Though Simpson has maintained his innocence in the murders of Brown Simpson and Goldman, in 2015 Kaelin claimed to Barbara Walters, "In my opinion, yes, I think he’s guilty. In hindsight of
everything, like 20 years later, I think that O.J. Simpson is guilty."